Chapter 74
Chapter 74: The Loom That Remembers
The group reaches the white tower only to find the forgetting has already taken root within it. The Keeper of the Ruins reveals a third path: someone must carry the forgetting into the loom itself. Kaelen volunteers, becoming bound to the loom as the forgetting shifts its hunger to him.
The meadow was wrong. The grass should have swayed, the sun should have warmed. Instead, the blades stood still as painted lines, and the light fell without heat, as if the sky had forgotten how to burn. Kaelen felt the crack behind them before he saw it—a thin black line that pulsed like a vein, already longer than it had been a moment ago.
"It's spreading," Lira said. Her voice was flat, afraid.
The girl looked at her empty hands. The twilight thread was gone, spent on the bridge. But something else remained—a warmth in her chest, a seed of waiting. "The old woman said the forgetting would follow. It wants the question."
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